What happens if your landlord passes away?
Either the landlord decides to uphold your lease or decides to extend it, letting you stay.
If your new landlord decides to start over and terminates your lease, you might have to find another place to live.
For Jane Sayner, 75, it was neither of these choices.
Jane Sayner has lived in St. Albans, Melbourne, Australia, for over two decades.
She rented a two-bedroom flat from multimillionaire John Perrett of St. Albans for AUD$250 per week.
Since moving into the residence, she has been making the same payment.
After 25 years of employment at her previous job, Jane had had enough.
She has rent to pay, so she doesn’t even want to think about returning.
She is fortunately spared.
Her landlord, John Perrett, died in September 2020.
He was a multimillionaire, although he never married or had children.
However, he received a kidney transplant thirty years before he passed away, which extended his life.
John was grateful that a significant amount of his fortune—roughly AUD$18.6 million—went to the Nephrology Department at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
The Royal Melbourne Hospital purchased an apartment that sold for AUD $400,000.
Two long-term tenants were left with two properties, including Jane.
In fact, John gave the two-bedroom apartment to Jane, who now owns the house she once rented.
Still, Jane had heard about this previously.
John even called her one day to find out her full name.
Then one day he simply called me and said, “I’m leaving you your unit, so please give me your full name, my solicitor is here.” I didn’t think I heard it correctly. Of course not. Jane said that he had always planned to donate all of his money to charity during the time she had known him.
Jane must have been really relieved to have the house now, even if she was crushed by John’s passing.
Since she moved here more than 20 years ago, she has surely made the place cozier.
“I handled this place as though it were my own. There was no garden at the back when I initially arrived. I planted a lot of flowers and plants because I was living here, and they are still there now,” Jane said.
John encouraged Jane to make the apartment feel more like home rather than becoming upset.Even his father’s old pots, which Jane could use to grow additional plants, were brought by him.
John and Jane were unquestionably friends rather than merely landlord and tenant.
John would tell Jane about his father after they had been talking for approximately an hour.
She also occasionally prepared meals for him.
John was an only kid in addition to being childless and unmarried.
Given that Jane had showed him friendship, it made sense for him to offer her the unit.
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